Upcoming Events

Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 5:00pm - 9:00pm

The first Lock-In of the season! Come celebrate Halloween with us! Cosplay your favorite character in our costume contest, take a trip through the haunted house, and share in some scary stories! Open to ages 12 and up.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:45pm

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientis know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells - taken without her knowledge in 1951 - became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for develping the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in-vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains vitually unknown. Join Alison Petrus-Wilkins for a discussion of this riveting story of the collision between ethics, race and medicine.